November 2007, to be published in Physical Review A


Correlations in orbital angular momentum of spatially entangled paired photons generated in parametric down-conversion
Clara I. Osorio, Gabriel Molina-Terriza, and Juan P. Torres

What are the orbital angular momentum correlations between spatially entangled photon pairs generated in spontaneous parametric down-conversion? We show that the answer to this question can be given in two alternative, although complementary, ways. The answer posed in this letter explains satisfactorily the {\em seemingly contradictory} results obtained in different experiments, and theoretical approaches.

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